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Redstate....and I wish you the best of luck in your run because we need more conservatives in Congress.

Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion

We are looking to rebuild the Republican brand, from the grassroots up.

Unfair. Unbalanced. Unmedicated. -- IMAO

And Thank you for your service.

Thanks for taking the pay cut and trying to help.

You sound like the kind of person we need 300 more of in DC.

a solid group in FL-16.

Best of luck Hal.

In the future, though, you might try to avoid calling yourself the "true conservative" of the race. The subject of who's a true conservative and who isn't is kind of touchy around here.

Your typical Spartan warrior clinging to spears and gods:

shame that you and Rooney can't run in different districts. Good luck.

Even though I am supporting Rooney in the primary, I will say this about Valeche: Unlike Harrell's supporters, who threw a hissy fit and derided RedState as irrelevant when she didn't it's endorsement, at least Valeche took the high road and simply stated why he thought he was the best candidate. Maybe Harrell's supporters should learn the meaning of the word dignity.

Hal, good luck to you. But Gayle Harrell is the best candidate of the three Republicans to take on Mahoney in November. She has comfortably won four terms in the state house in a swing district which is 100 percent inside of FL-16. That is the kind of profile we need to win in November. Your Palm Beach city council district has very minimal overlap with FL-16.

You may have a lot of personal cash but Gayle has the record, the experience, the name ID, the endorsements, the conservative credentials, and an army of dedicated volunteers who want to see her in Washington. Oh yeah, and her husband, a retired OB/GYN has delivered half the babies in the area the past 30 years.

This is a classic match up of two rich guys trying to buy a seat vs the candidate who just wants to earn it the old fashioned way. Although to your credit Hal, at least you earned your own money. Rooney just inherited his.

In other news, someone should ask Tom Rooney why the rest of his family are all Obama supporters.

"Geoff Oldfather’s March 23 column on Rep. Gayle Harrell’s HB 821, which would prohibit tax-funded support of day labor centers for illegal aliens, omits any mention of a key motivator. Now that Harrell, R-Port St. Lucie, is in the struggle of her political life with two conservative challengers for the GOP nomination in the 16th Congressional District, she finally decides to get tough on illegal immigration.

For six years Harrell was a proud cheerleader for amnesty-friendly former Gov. Jeb Bush, his brother, the president, and U.S. Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla. During last winter’s contest for the presidential nomination, she remained silent while three proven, solid, secure-borders and anti-amnesty GOP candidates could not get traction.

Harrell’s born-again conservatism is a far cry from her past liberal record, which included her 2001 Gateway to Learning Bill (which the teachers unions wanted but Gov. Bush vetoed that would have harassed home-schoolers), and her 2002 HB115 that would have revoked the law designed to improve medical readiness in our military that sets aside three spaces annually for military academy graduates.

Harrell’s prize was 2004’s HB1513, which would have permitted eminent-domain seizures of private property for private development — a whole year before the Supreme Court’s liberal majority decided the Kelo decision.

Rep. Harrell also is running as a solid, 100 percent Christian-Coalition-of-Florida, traditional-values candidate. Does this mean Harrell has repudiated her past abortion rights position and, specifically, her 2002 pro-abortion committee vote that killed the Infant Born Alive Protection Act?

Harrell can show her sincerity by opposing matching and supplemental funding for those children’s services councils that have used property tax dollars to fund programs by Planned Parenthood, the nation’s premier abortion lobby and provider." 

Joseph M. Ascrizzi

Palm City